What a deal! Get an Amazon Echo Dot for just 99 cents

For a limited time, you can get an Echo Dot for 99 cents when you subscribe to Amazon Music Unlimited. How it works: Prime members pay $7.99 for the one-month subscription and the Dot (non-Prime users pay $10.98) and the music service offers unlimited access to 50 million songs in an ad-free environment. That's a great price -- the Dot normally costs about $50 and the monthly music subscription is $9.99.

The compact Echo Dot shares all the same features as the Amazon Echo: you can use the smart speaker to play music, answer questions, read the news, turn on the lights, and make phone calls hands-free. And one BabyCenter parent adds, “our kids love having Alexa tell them jokes.”

You can get the popular (and cute) speaker in three shades -- sandstone, heather gray, and charcoal. (Sorry, it's not available in plum for this deal.) The Echo Dot has over 65,000 customer reviews and a 4.6 star-rating.